Biosystems and Environmental Engineering Research Group, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. Electronic address: wgwenzi@agric.uz.ac.zw.
High-quality contraceptive counseling is critical for supporting full, free, and informed contraceptive decision-making. However, the quality of family planning counseling remains poor globally and is...
Providers at 25 public and 20 private facilities in Malawi were trained in the C4C approach. Between October and December 2018, we enrolled women seeking contraceptive services in intervention facilit...
Of 1,179 participants, women counseled by C4C-trained providers rated their providers higher on several quality dimensions, including enabling informed decision-making (11.1% of the comparison group r...
In Malawi, C4C improved the quality of care that clients received and their client experience relative to standard counseling. Counseling approaches that center clients' priorities and provide enhance...
Pregnancy care should include open discussions with patients about their ideal family size and pregnancy spacing. With these patient-voiced goals in mind, clinicians should review contraceptive tools ...
Breastfeeding is the gold standard of infant nutrition and current guidelines suggest exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, with continued breastfeeding through 24 months or beyond. Obstetric care pro...
People living with neurologic conditions have historically been among the most marginalized groups in society. Advances in science and medicine have helped prevent, manage, or even cure many of these ...
To better understand the relationship between high-quality contraceptive counseling and met family planning needs, we examined the association between quality of counseling and selection of a method p...
We used post-counseling survey data from women receiving care in public health centers and nongovernmental clinics in three regions in Ethiopia. Among women whose reason for visit was requesting a con...
There was a nonsignificant increase in odds of selecting contraception with increasing total QCC scale scores (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 2.35, 0.43-12.95). However, among women experiencing no disresp...
Increasing QCC is associated with selecting contraception among women requesting contraception. Additionally, probing for negative experiences can reveal feelings of disrespect and abuse that could le...
Our study assesses contraceptive counseling quality using a validated tool with items on provider pressure and other forms of disrespect and abuse; findings highlight the importance of respectful trea...
Surgeons should provide patients with appropriate explanations before surgery and obtain informed consent. However, this process requires time and effort and can be a great burden. The purpose of this...
Rectal cancer patients indicated for surgery were included between April 2021 and March 2022, and eligible patients were randomly assigned to the CC and VC groups. The primary outcomes were the compre...
We included 13 patients in the CC group and 17 in the VC group. All eligible patients were scheduled for robotic rectal cancer surgery. There were no significant differences between the two groups, in...
Using videos in preoperative counseling for rectal cancer patients is useful. This novel method could reduce the burden on surgeons during preoperative counseling in the era of robotic surgery and wor...
Despite calls to increase dietary counselling by physicians to help address the epidemic of lifestyle-related chronic disease, medical education does not equip future physicians with the training to p...
We implemented a brief, virtual nutrition education intervention in a US medical school during the outpatient clinical clerkship and assessed how our curriculum influenced students' development of die...
Student feedback revealed appreciation for learning how to approach conversations about diet in a non-judgmental manner and specific strategies to use during counselling. We thematically analysed the ...
After receiving brief, clinically relevant, virtual nutrition education, students were able to successfully apply dietary counselling skills to patient care. In conjunction with indirect skill assessm...
Birth control has long been considered an essential part of postpartum rounds. Many health care providers believe prevention of pregnancy is a priority in the postpartum period and that the inpatient ...
This study aimed to explore pharmacists' counseling for dementia by developing a measurement tool based on the Theory of Planned Behavior....
A survey was applied online to community pharmacists; in total, 190 community pharmacists participated in the study. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and Mann-Whi...
A six-factor structure was obtained from the EFA, and the CFA confirmed the structure. These factors explained 71.294% of the total variance. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the factors ranged f...
The developed measurement tool had a satisfactory construct and convergent and discriminant validities and reliabilities....
The developed measurement tool can be used to investigate pharmacists' self-reported counseling for dementia and can also be applied to the counseling behavior of pharmacists in various health conditi...
As the coincidence of pregnancy and cancer rise, clinicians must be prepared to counsel their patients on the complex relationship between maternal and fetal health. In most types of cancer, maternal ...
